PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956.
PICASSO BACK IN THE
A
NEWS WITH A FILM
Biblical patriarch.
Paris 01 Communien),
sonte an amused
which he of a new evening paper, Lo
candescension
T 75, Painter Pabio claims as his poitical faith, he Tempe De Paris.
dks little and folustanty, while Heavily backed by powerful Picasso continues to communists he discusses with Rnancial groups, and especially of the Michelin Car Co., Le Temps is like flourish
of of such technical perfection that other French It makes every newspaper sem 25 years out of date. Its main purpose will be to most Influential news- the lill paper in France, Le Monde.
Le Monde is
a newspaper remarkable Independence, austero Roman by an
of
He tundamentally not
Spanish of but Communist int anarchist with one ruling pollti- oditcd
a
pn
is conscious Sonteone who A Noah's Ark of children being a Stalin in his right.
"Why should they try to tolk and dependants have fol- to me about art," he will say, teach them not try to lowed him to his home near "I do
few miles economics," Cannes only a from the pottery town Vallauris, which cashed
it cal passion--a hatred of Franco. Catholic M. Boure-Mery, whose
ofter vergod on him so heavily that
Occasionally he drives over to views have Communist had
Spanish neutralism. Perpignda on
have Many of those associated with mayor elected in his honour. frontier.
The house is a harsus Victim- accompanied him in these trips Le Temps are former supporters Aney matatanien built for a
say that he is often millionaire It truns with emotion at being so near to pagn both externally and Internally his native Spain.
No doubt he could return, but the sincerity with which Peasses dings to D of his lasurite he refures to do so while Franco naximas: "There is no such thing k in power, as ugliness.”
even
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What is fath will be after his death is a matter of considera- alle speculatis n.
His fortune, which is one of the biggest personal fortunes in HE IS HAPPY The house has a new mistreen the world today, is administered -- kively. 36-year-old native of by a Purls banker, who has had Vallauris, formerly the wife of a charge of his investments since minor French colúnial feral.
Here in an atmosphere of al-
farelcat must
chaos
Picasso o entirely happy. He had eine 1» kathe Valla 9
the und nerviation that had been built Bound his name. He had been A karist
attruction fur wis m bus-loads of tourists would wart to see him take his beduled walk from his motion villa to his studio. Hoe in Cannes his studia Ly in gwn hands, which we protected by AGATA taker's ge
remarkable
At the moment Picasso is back in the news with o
im, which he has made in col- laboration with the French director, Chunst.
The film lasts 30 minutes, and Ist M. A is premcTE ut the current Comes Film Festival.
SEEN THROUGH
laths Alm, Picasso, who re-
15 sketches in a perial poper
other sale
I aim wit be to provide the French classical Right with a reliable organ of opinion.
this it will largely In doing reflect the views of the former Foreign Minister, Premier and M. Antoine Pinny.
Despite its termical brilliance,
Grat tun of 400,000 the paper has yet off to a shaky cupics rold only 120,000 and the start-
hovers around circulation now 60,000.
The is also desensko in the bliber tehelons of the paper
น bockers, with the character-
Tories, wish to strike a strong latic short-sightedness of French political rate immediately, while M. Philippe a talente editor, Bouguer, advises caution until a mus circulation has been bult un
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
de Gaulle, On
suggestin
The house is burely fumushed an up-in throughout, draws GENERAL That be might and sparsely carpetani,
"i do nol A house proud Pless, with asperini Ink which re- retusa to politics. bronzed and
dresul in shorts, pir duette" the drawings on the want to be a peacetime Pelain."
Urgell Poet Dilra Eretz, ot ean think of a better mani of showing off his new home t
Thus
the spectator
will see present in Paris, on the Middle plattors than by kicking the
the evolution of a Piens picture East situation, "It is all leberw walls hard and explanalog "Sev.
Pluding Crivellons from Bir to me.
Author Francis Caroo: "I adore they're sold.'
beginning to the end. At this band his te #Jel
who has made his children when they try be- visitors stand elent froom # reputation a master of Bus- cause then they are immediate- downpour of plaster
in flims, says that all his ly taken away." Stacks of Camvares and newh- previsus sfforts to erecte sus- papers litte
11. often prove e feeble cumpared to improvised table the excitement of watching serving
Picasso work in progre
chithy
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FROM CYPRUS WESTWARDS
Shall Remember. These Things
By DONALD EDGAR HAVE. just come protected me when the Com back from my travels inunists were after me........'
And another streamér foll ...Athens, Cyprus, across the table.... Rome, Paris, Monte Carlo. I
Danger went to write about the SHALL remember the norow newa....riots, shootings, lanes of Nicosis at midnight Constitutions, weddings. with a moon casting a deceptiva
But now I want to write light on cats and garbage, and about the things that I shall English faces poised in doors with English hands on tommy- remember when that news
gund la flat and stale....
I shall remember the 'rouð ta Limasol through the Cyprus mountains, when we drove fust. They said there might be trouble. And the mountain flowers and the peasant co his donkey took on that three dimensional significance that danger is about.
The sky is bluer. The colours The deeper. The air sweeter. of road longer.
13 When danger about
I shall remember..
I shall remember the evening
Athens...It wad
carnival the Orthodox Leni.. streams
before when
covered
the tables of the restaurant. And in ue corner they played bouzou- kio, the populer Greece.
music
comts
when
And I shall remember how with to dance clance hagÜESSES
it was
A mixture of Eustern sund Western music with the words mado up as the singer goes g along. And many
Cypriot Greek of the songs were about the sufferings of the in the place we called the Euka slood young men Greek Cyprkyts and the terrible Naad while sets of the British,
around and stared with hatred in their eyes. And I laughed' as they trans- inted the words...and I saw Inu fares of the
men at the inblos freeze..........
And then a small man cume
up and sald to me in English: "You
me when I people fed Was starving. -your people
Singing Int in Rome. I was 4 small backroom in a
It was late.
There was a party of six men
on office party I should say. celebrating a promotion. Or 趨 wedding. There was a court- ing couple much in love that you jealous. There was a middle-aged pair who looked around and hoped for fun from the company.
Will Miss Loren make the grade? I go to Spain to find out uldn't help foaling from our
SOPHIA
TAKES
the CHILL OFF
I
By LOGAN
resistance.
GOURLAY
I
"I am hop-
pier If you tell Madrid Franco and the Spanish went past to her car. But there
me I nun in- no was no greeting for "The Bog" telligent in- T was the night that authorities are putting up
as he loft, not even an "Ole" or stead of say "The Gasser" danced After nearly a year, planning "Viva Ave."
I'm beau- the flamenco watched the campaign, Kramer moved
tiful." by "The Boy" and out from his headquarters In
It is Madrid one night last week to "Mother" Grant among take first shots of "The Gasser" (or Miss Loren) dancing her ex- plosive flamenco,
others.
"The Gasser" is the slang nickname given to Italian atar Sophia Loren by Fran- kie Sinatra. ("She gasses You know, sends me. She is quite a dame.")
me.
"The Boy" is an affec- tionate term for the 39- year-old Mr Sinatra himself used by his tra- velling managers and hench- men.
And "Mo- ther" Grant Is what 62. year-old Cary Grant is jokingly called by Mr Sinatra.
The so three are the stars of
a new Holly- wood-backed epic "The Pride And The Pas- siun," which
is being
made en- tirely in Spain by producer- director Stanley Kramer.
Based
on C. S. Fores
ter's book, "The Gun," It is the story of the Spanish War of In- de pendence In 181,6, during Nap- oleon'a in- ́ vasion.
Nineteen fifty-six will go down in
Spanish his
tory as the
from Hollywood.
Shooting was due to start in the village square around 9 p.m. and carried on until nearly dawn.
And the mustelers came. The violinist who looked around like A port. The singer mouthful of gold teeth. guitarist
with the American
with a
The
crew-cut and the features of a
foun
We drank white wine and sang.
And in the singing we forgot ourselves.
*
The office party forgot. In- volcog and promotion. Tho young couplo forgot their love. The middle-aged their boredom. And
we our Anglo-Saxon ine, hibitions.
We song of sunshine and gropes. Of lovely women who are fickle.
Of men who sull the damlilar pattern, away. Of the tears of things. Of
io culture,
the absurdity of things. vulgar jokes about honeymoOTII. -
from
The few thousand vill from curves agers every man, woman, and busts to bumps of learning. For of the mercy of God to thosa child of them were packed into every girl who attracts an the square to watch and won
audierice because of hor physical endowments' aspires to impress them with histrionics.
Miss Loren may well succeed, Anyway,
she intends to let nothing interfere with
her career for the next few years. Certainly not marriage.
Dominating the centre of the Was the 0,0001b, Kun 50 which is the co-star of "The
"The Boy," Gasser,”
and "Mother" Grant.
The main units assembled in the Dumber one billet the der.
Hotel, which is plushy Madrid owned by the American tycoon square Conrad Hilton, and which, they say, has a top marked "C" (for Coke) in every bathroom.
Watching everything with bendy, sceptical eye from
SOPHIA LOREN
her valus soars
11
its
Warming up THE Alm is simply the story of the gun and how it is dragged all over Spain to blast the French Invaders out.
"I will not get married und
who sall in ships.
And в устан wiped a tear away. And then a man.
We went up the stairs and
tho while statues drove round that live in Rome, and the water. from the fountains lost direction and tumbled - untidily into the humans losing basins....like
I am 25. Then I want a hus-purpose. band who is ugly.
"I have a Neapolitan tem-
Paris
perament. If I had a husband [THE Champs-Elyses werd It is 14ft. high, with a barrel who is good looking he would looking very grand, very 24ft. long, and it is supposed to attract other women, and fre a cannon ball two miles.
would got very jealous." But it is made of plastic, so Menning Benity
aristocratic in a pale spring sun- shine...but what is the use of very walking down tha Champs-
the Spaniards could not use it to, happy without the Beast. blast the Kramer invaders back Never far from her side is n
Elygoes these days?
to Hollywood. Not, of course, slim Sicilian named Basilic whores
people of fashion, for people of
that the Spaniards would want has
to do any such thing-while the Italian dollars Jost.
With the gun as a menacing/
produced and directed
That avenue was made for Leisure.
films. Now he is her
But all you see are shabby munager, mentor, and <riend.
with ordinary, Back on the set, "The Boy buses crowded
people and cars driven with a perhaps symbolic, background, Sinatra was chatting amiably sont ferocity that is more Gasser" danced her to a dark, good-looking glri. sinister than tho old noisy, flamenco under the blazing are Peggy Connolly, who is a singer lights and in front of Vistavision by profession. She is a friend panache. cameras.
and fan who has travelled from
The
As she tossed her red hair and Hollywood, swirled her redder, petticoats,
Since he arrived, he has the vilingers screamed "Ole" and clinched of clashed with clapped hot hands. It had been Gardner, who is now in
until sidence in Mpdrid. chill Spanish night "The Gasser" get herself alight
in flaming flamenco. Anything but a plastle gun would have gone off by itself.
I talked to her as she cooled: off in her dressing room
tween tales.
Ava
TO-
THE
Democracy
at about fivo 'o'clock, in the morning in
not, day ends
Monte Carlo. At the Tip-Top, a narrow, tito restaurent where everyccia eats bacðn and eggs, 2.
Thero There Onassis comes. Sir Bernard and Lady Docker There the big gamblers his behaviour has been exem-com with
girl their
friends. was a trife There the tailors from the port
because a come.
At 5 a.m.... ACCORDING to all the reports come
⚫She sipped a little sherry, and record player and epinet that he It is the most democratic place
in Monte Carlo.
belery, though, he at first dificult
for were not installed Immediately in his hotel suite.
It is only 200 yards from the He got the record-player and Hotel de Paris, where the day the spinet, and ever since he begins at half past 12 in the has been a "good boy."
morning I found "Mother" Grant" in
said in her newly
acquired asked English: "I do not understand Frankie nickname that
this
Sinatra gives me. It is difficult to learn the plang.
must think of a nickname for him."
I told her it should not
dificult
he
"The Prido And The Passion"
You lurer at two in the res a corner surveying the organised taurant, you talk until four disorder on the set with the The women
then go to the
calm of a veteran who has been beauty parlour. The men
star for 25 years.
is her first opportunity to ap ́. I asked him how he and his you have a bath and change
most
ngreying contemporaries-Bogart, erar in o major fim with
Tracy'succeded in at mix. Cocktails agahi ha tha Hollywood cast and establish Gable,
bar at seven.. Hollywood's Sophia Loren as an international remaining star.
You dip at nino. For the privilege of helping "Not easy to say, my dear her to do it, the Kramer. com chap. One reason,
Important
Leading
men.
At 11 you go by lift...or
I suppose, perhaps walk 100 yards to the pany claim they are paying her is that people have got into the casinos
You gamble for an hour or so $200,000. I expect they may be habit of buying tickets for our
Rot ...according to luck. Indulging in a little Spanish Alma. Just as they have
You take a lift downstairs to the habit of buying the 1000 exaggeration. Her value is un-
ane kind of soap-powder
or the cabaret, doubtedly soaring. Yet
hair' cream. cently as three years ago was just abit player : from Naples, not even o glint in the roguish eye of the Italians male,
sho
"DUficult to break a habit.". On the set "The Casar" was still dancing...
drink cham
dance. and You pagne unill four.
And then it is bacon and eggs again in the Tip-Top.
With luck you may not have
ore than
£25 for tha
you will have moved
in a radius
of a few,
Athens, Cyprus, Romo, Parti; Monte Carlo,
Finally around 5 am the The fuss
cameras stopped tuming and spent more TOW at 21 che is rivalling, shooting was " over.
The day,
And Lollobrigida
film army and spaghetti bedraggled, weary as the most celebrated Itallen went back to billets around product. In Britain America, Tesoro, the talking macaw, hundred yards, and other parts of the cinema- was asleep on his perch in the conditoned world
.89- inclics) le forlorn t
I was reliably informed that, year that Kramer Invaded' perchin tie foyer was the statistic (one per most vital number one billet. He looked o had been kept up most of billet's peta brightly plumaged becoming as well known to every bird, a macaw who is called man as his income-tax rate.
"But"
she said, straightening, the night by a member of the
The fear in a face as the With nut army of 2,400 extens,
Tesoro, meaning Areasure, 2) her back "I do not like too super-etikelent polyglot pubialty fonts of trucks one helicopter, Tesoro is probably the only much fu about the bust. And unit, who had instructions to roulette wheel turned 200 mules, and a marmoth member of Mr Hilton's highly the gure.
spare no effort and no expenes The hatred in a face ne
Cypriot watched a British patrol. to "I do not want to pose too in nuts to ensch Tesoro 9,000lb. he will eras Americanstalt
love, burger, arrogance, through more than 1,000 miles Spanish, But he has also picked often for the, cheesecake pic screech the time title loudly at freligion), all the motions that of Spanish territory, a conquer up a few words of other langu- dures. That was all right in the appointed hours.
wek beginning when I have to He failed Tesoro Insisted on have moved; thel, and
Dotanee, artirectTM intention, lot."
The Price Xando dos since the gods were youn
*W*'liva. Bad: who croniced Now 1 wm trying to develop Panor. Nula or The Price and
the Passionik Kark
ing about 25 villager, and towns," "eges, ghooting bgainst mathentic bacc ground And He will speed about Pa
$4,000,000,
who speaks.
what did if all mean?
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